2012 Monza Superbike World Championship round
| Round details | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Round 4 of 14 rounds in the 2012 Superbike World Championship season. | |||
| and | |||
| Round 4 of 13 rounds in the 2012 Supersport World Championship season. | |||
| ← Previous round | Next round → | ||
| Assen | Donington | ||
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| Date | May 6, 2012 | ||
| Location | Monza | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility 5.777 km (3.590 mi) | ||
| Superbike World Championship | |||
| Pole position | |||
 Sylvain Guintoli | |||
| 1:54.276 | |||
| Fastest lap race 1 | Fastest lap race 2 | ||
 n/a |
 Tom Sykes | ||
| 1:44.707 | |||
| Supersport World Championship | |||
| Pole position | |||
| Sam Lowes | |||
| 1:47.601 | |||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Sam Lowes | |||
| 2:00.653 | |||
The 2012 Monza Superbike World Championship round was the fourth round of the 2012 Superbike World Championship season and of the 2012 Supersport World Championship season. It took place on the weekend of May 4–6, 2012 at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza located in Monza, Italy.
Superbike
Report
At this round the championship held an awards ceremony marking their 25th anniversary, this however would be a round full of incident, the conditions were changeable throughout the weekend, and during a wet superpole riders were unable to make their wet tyres last more than 2 laps due to the tyres falling apart down the center due to the high speed nature of the Monza circuit. The race started dry but Mark Aitchison fell at the final turn on the warm up lap then John Hopkins and Marco Melandri, would also go down at the final turn. The race was stopped as the rain persisted and race 1 was canceled on safety grounds.[1] Race 2 was run in similar conditions with the rain falling just after half distance meaning that half points were awarded. After the debacle Team Effenbert Liberty Racing hit out at WSBK organizers for favoring a few riders in the cancellation of race 1, putting doubt into their further participation in the championship.[2] Pirelli the lone tyre provider hit back at complaints from the riders who Pirelli say ignored the advice to use the intermediate tyres during the wet/dry racing.[3] Liberty racing later released a statement backtracking on was said in the wake of Monza and confirming that the team would be competing at the next round but hinted that the title sponsor Effenbert may scale back their branding in way of protest.[4]
Race 2 classification
Supersport
Race classification
| Pos | No. | Rider | Bike | Laps | Time | Grid | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 16 | Jules Cluzel |
Honda CBR600RR | 16 | 33:08.897 | 10 | 25 |
| 2 | 11 | Sam Lowes |
Honda CBR600RR | 16 | +0.312 | 1 | 20 |
| 3 | 54 |  Kenan Sofuoğlu |
Kawasaki ZX-6R | 16 | +17.369 | 2 | 16 |
| 4 | 10 |  Imre Tóth |
Honda CBR600RR | 16 | +21.528 | 11 | 13 |
| 5 | 12 |  Stefano Cruciani |
Kawasaki ZX-6R | 16 | +29.469 | 5 | 11 |
| 6 | 25 | Alex Baldolini |
Triumph Daytona 675 | 16 | +32.214 | 19 | 10 |
| 7 | 55 | Massimo Roccoli |
Yamaha YZF-R6 | 16 | +43.577 | 9 | 9 |
| 8 | 8 | Andrea Antonelli |
Honda CBR600RR | 16 | +43.949 | 16 | 8 |
| 9 | 31 | Vittorio Iannuzzo |
Triumph Daytona 675 | 16 | +47.455 | 21 | 7 |
| 10 | 35 | Raffaele De Rosa |
Honda CBR600RR | 16 | +47.826 | 22 | 6 |
| 11 | 3 |  Jed Metcher |
Yamaha YZF-R6 | 16 | +50.880 | 27 | 5 |
| 12 | 99 | Fabien Foret |
Kawasaki ZX-6R | 16 | +1:00.681 | 4 | 4 |
| 13 | 87 | Luca Marconi |
Yamaha YZF-R6 | 16 | +1:01.139 | 13 | 3 |
| 14 | 74 | Kieran Clarke |
Honda CBR600RR | 16 | +1:05.160 | 32 | 2 |
| 15 | 40 | Martin Jessopp |
Honda CBR600RR | 16 | +1:05.208 | 25 | 1 |
| 16 | 22 | Roberto Tamburini |
Honda CBR600RR | 16 | +1:10.453 | 6 | |
| 17 | 6 | Mirko Giansanti |
Kawasaki ZX-6R | 16 | +1:16.756 | 18 | |
| 18 | 64 |  Joshua Day |
Kawasaki ZX-6R | 16 | +1:21.270 | 26 | |
| 19 | 88 | Giovanni Altomonte |
Honda CBR600RR | 16 | +1:28.024 | 33 | |
| 20 | 17 | Roberto Anastasia |
Honda CBR600RR | 16 | +1:28.403 | 30 | |
| 21 | 61 | Fabio Menghi |
Yamaha YZF-R6 | 16 | +1:48.237 | 14 | |
| 22 | 13 | Dino Lombardi |
Yamaha YZF-R6 | 16 | +1:59.036 | 24 | |
| 23 | 53 | Valentin Debise |
Honda CBR600RR | 16 | +2:00.983 | 29 | |
| 24 | 27 |  Thomas Caiani |
Honda CBR600RR | 15 | +1 lap | 35 | |
| 25 | 33 |  Yves Polzer |
Yamaha YZF-R6 | 15 | +1 lap | 31 | |
| 26 | 24 |  Eduard Blokhin |
Yamaha YZF-R6 | 15 | +1 lap | 34 | |
| Ret | 98 | Romain Lanusse |
Kawasaki ZX-6R | 15 | Retirement | 17 | |
| Ret | 23 | Broc Parkes |
Honda CBR600RR | 13 | Retirement | 7 | |
| Ret | 81 | Cristiano Erbacci |
Yamaha YZF-R6 | 8 | Accident | 23 | |
| Ret | 157 | Ilario Dionisi |
Honda CBR600RR | 6 | Retirement | 20 | |
| Ret | 65 | Vladimir Leonov |
Yamaha YZF-R6 | 5 | Accident | 15 | |
| Ret | 20 |  Mathew Scholtz |
Honda CBR600RR | 5 | Accident | 8 | |
| Ret | 38 | Balázs Németh |
Honda CBR600RR | 5 | Accident | 28 | |
| Ret | 32 | Sheridan Morais |
Kawasaki ZX-6R | 3 | Accident | 3 | |
| Ret | 34 | Ronan Quarmby |
Honda CBR600RR | 1 | Accident | 12 | |
| DNQ | 73 | Oleg Pozdneev |
Yamaha YZF-R6 | ||||
| OFFICIAL SUPERSPORT RACE REPORT | |||||||
References
- ↑ "Rain halts first WSBK race". crash.net (Crash Media Group). 6 May 2012. Retrieved 7 May 2012.
- ↑ "Furious Effenbert Liberty slams WSBK". crash.net (Crash Media Group). 7 May 2012. Retrieved 8 May 2012.
- ↑ "Pirelli teams completely ignored advice". crash.net (Crash Media Group). 7 May 2012. Retrieved 8 May 2012.
- ↑ "Liberty clarifies position". crash.net (Crash Media Group). 10 May 2012. Retrieved 12 May 2012.